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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1917)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1917. O ORAHDE EVENING OBSERVER. 1 EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER TT1T TBVrrD !T V a S m V . An Independent Newspaper. Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO. JT. D. MEYERS H. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER President Vice-President Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St. On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand. Portland; Imperial News Stand, Portland. City Official Paper. Leased Wire Telegraph Report of United Press Associations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. Daily, by mail per aiz month Dally, single copy be Daily oar week loc Daily, per month 65e Daily, per six months in advance.J3.60 Dally, per year in advance (7.00 By HalL Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $5.00. in advance $2.50 Daily, by mail for three months in advance $1.25 Daily, by mail per month 45 The Saturday Evening Observer per year in advance $1.60 Weekly -Observer-Star per year in advance $1.50 The Observer carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on tfie porches. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglect gait-Bath, paper to you on time, kindly phone The Observer, as this is the only ay we can determine whether or not the carriers are ollowing instruc tions. Phone Main 87 before T:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by xpeclal messenger if the carrier has missed you. Football Season On At Camp Lewis HANG TI1E.M. Camp Lewis, Tucoma, Wash., Oct. 1. j The football season has opened at Camp Iyewis. Several teams are be ing organized and some of the, brat players on the coast are in the camp. Here are some of the men who are turning out for practice: Lieute-ant Russell, lust year's center with Cali fornia; Lieutenant Morse, formerly guard with the University of Cincin nati; Capel, for four years with the Utah Agriculture college eleven; Charles Kelly, former guard with California; Dury, former end with the University of Chicago; Lieutenant Bell, end from Southern California; Lieutenant Everett May, former coach and manager of athletics at the Ore gon Agriculture college; Speck Hurl hurt, of Multnomah club, Portland; Earny Vosper, former Portland in terscholastic star, and Lieutenant Hutchinson, California. And that s only a few of them. One officer, a former college player, said today that a couple of hundred foot ball teams could be formed here from men with previous experience when the organization of the camp is completed. A team representing the 36th Regi- ,ment will probuhly meet the Seattle naval militia team in the Tacomu stadium on Thanksgiving day. It is a fact that we have traitors in the country. There is only one wav to treat tlumi; that is to punish them with death". Who will he the Benedict Arnold of this war 1 Mm may die as spies and still retain their good names; they have risked their lives for their country. Hut a traitor! The very names inspires loathing and disgust. o SOME DAY. Some day inaylic 20 or 30 years from now when most of us old folks have passed away, some of you young men and young women will have a hoy or girl climb up on your lap and ask you: "What did you do during the great war to help your country?" What have you done to help your country in the first six months of the war 1 They say that the time to frame up an alibi is in advanee. Now is the time to get ready to answer that question which will be about as difficult as some that will lie asked yon on the Judgment Day. Anyone who has had a small boy on his lap asking (piest ions knows that. o , , ' OUR PURPOSES. ! star Wi 111 THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY YOJ SHOULD MAKE A SELECTION DURING THIS DISPLAY OF c Plush Coats For one reason, we have a larger stock now than we will have at any other time this season this assures you of a very wide choice in style, material, and price. . These coats were purchased from a manufacturer who made ad vance contracts for materials and thus obtained the very best grades of fine lustrous black plushes and other pile fabrics. NOW since he purchased these materials and since we bought the made up coats from him, the price of plush has advanced very much, so if you select your plush coat now at this store you will buy at less than we could sell it to you if we had to buy the coats now. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY OF PLUSH COATS. We'll be pleased to show them to you el any time. Ladies1 Shoes All the popular grades in kid and calf leathers, grays, browns, tans, Ivory, silver, champagne, black and white. Also in combinations of all these colors in cloth or kid tops. Your inspection invited $3.50 to $10. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY LOUISE GLAUM IS A MOTHER IX MEW !l..Y. "A STRANGE TRANSGRESSOR" Men's Shoes Hrown, tan and black are the best colors for men's Dress Shoes. AVcj have all kinds in each. English straight and Armv lasts. Also a splen . did line of "Work Shoes. Xap-a-Tan, Herginan and others $4.50 to $9.00. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world, to every people to whom the truth has, been permitted to come. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We Ixliove that the intolerable wrongs .lone in this war by furh us and brutal power of the Imperial German government ought to be repaired but not at the ex pense of the sovereignity of any people rather a vindica tion of the sovereignity both of those that are weak and those that are strong. Peace must be based up m justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. From President Wilson's Reply to the Pope. o Sl'IM'OKT Till-; COM M ITTKK. Louise Glai.ni as Ixla Montrose in the Triungle play "A Strange Trans gressor," by J. G. Hawks and John Lynch, gives a warm, sympathetic ex ample of a woman who responds to the power of mother love that wondrous passion which dominates all female creatures, no matter of what species. She is a woman of international no toricty. She has dared the world, sa cure in her beauty and her fascination for men. She has mocked the conven tion of matrimony as established by ! church and state . She has been frank ! in her mode of life, even flaunted, it ! before the public. Yet when baby hands touch her heart she is re claimed. Maternal love proves the divine hen lor of sin. This picture together with an act of vaudeville will be at the Star, Thursday and Friday. Portland First unit of University of Oregon medical school to be built will cost $115,000. Hart Schaffner & Marx OVERCOATS AND SUITS You get long service in the all-wool fabrics and fine tailoring that goes into these coats and suits. You get genuine utility in the many ways you can wear . a coat of this kind. The all arjund belt with the buckle is a smart touch to both suits and coats, so are the pleats and patch pockets. $20.00 to $50.00 Wo ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE every HART SCHAFFNER & MAHX SUIT TO WEAR, HOLD THEIR SHAPE, AND SAT ISFY CAN YOU FIND A BETTER INDUCEMENT? Also a fine line of suits at $15.00 and $17.50, if you don't want an expensive suit. See our window display of these suits and then come in and let us show them to you. The Observer is glad to see that men like Frid .1. Holmes, William .Miller, A. T. Hill, J. CI. Snodgrass, G. L. Larison, K. K. Bragg and Dr. A. L. Richardson men who do things and can do things have taken hold of the cam paign for La (iraiide and surrounding country to advance the interests of the Liberty Loan campaign. This is a big proposition. The people are asked to lend the Govern ment $:i,000,000,000. Since the people are the Govern- Is Your Money Supporting the Government? At this critical period in our history our manufac turers are offering their mills, and our young men are offering their services to the United States Gov ernment. Would you like to do your share and holp by put ting your money where it will Bupport the new Fed eral Reserve Banking System, which the Government has established to stand back of our commerce, in dustry and agriculture 7 You can do this by opening an account with us, as part of every dollar so deposited goes directly into the new system, where- It will always be ready fot you when wanted. Member Federal Remarre System La Grande National Bank incut they are lending the money to themselves. The Gov ernment will pay 1 per cent interest. There are two big arguments in favor of making the loan. First The money is needed to prosecute the war; we must support the boys at the' front; this is the argument ot patriotism. No one can answer this argument Second It is a good investment to buy the bonds, the best investment in the world. In the first place the Gov ernment pays the same interest as the banks do; in reality the interest is higher because the bonds are tax fret;. Ivr other words a resident of La Grande can buv a 50, $100, 500, 1000, 5000 or 10,000 bond, and when the assessor come around he does not pay taxes on it. Hut he does on his certificates of deposit and where his taxes are 43 or 11 mills as they are in La Grande, the amount of taxes paid on the deposit he has in bank, reduces the net interest earned on the investment. The people of La Grande and vicinity farmers, work ers, capitalists, all should support their local committee and the Government. There are many who can buy big blocks of bonds. They should do it. There are many who buy small amounts. Thev should do it. Xo one is too bitr or too small to help out in this great Xational movement. And remember that when you get the bond, it is as good ns cash. Anytime you want to take your 50 bond down to the bank you can get money on it; you can use it to pay the doctor, the lawyer, the undertaker", the butcher, the bilker, the candlestick maker. Some pei-sons will tell you that they can make more money than I per cent on their money. Some can: some can't. But there is nothing so safe as a Government bond. 1 f the people of this country had put their money into Gov ernment bonds instead of wild cat speculations we would be niuch richer today. If you put your money in Government bonds, von alwavs can get it out. That is quite a satisfaction and will help you sleep nights. f Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON f l'Rl'SSIAXS ARE CUNNING. (Continued from Page 1.) whose motives were beyond anv txis- sible suspicion who saw hcir own and Amirica's duty in strict neutrali ty, mentally and actually, but person ally 1 believed from the beginning of the war, whether we liked all the ele ments of the Allies combination or not and I certainly did not like the Rus sia of the Czars that the cause of (Oontkmed on Page 6.) A Sad Business T ...1. i. . if"Pw a snoot, my Hermans sadlv; 1 ri (, 1K,t but'"h('1' 1:u,y. it with a poignant grid ; 1 Jntte to mecs a stranger, and, while my life's in danger, convert him into beef. I don't enjoy my slay ing; much rather I'd be haying, or milking brindled cows; but forth I go a-scooting to kill tin: toes by shooting and leave some widowed fraus. In tales of blood and thunder the hero is a wonder who fairly lusts for gore; in every shilling thriller the soldier is a killer who seeks for victims more. But is there any mortal this side the red hot portal who truly loves the fray, who does not shrink and shiver when shooting lights or liver from some unlucky jay? If any gent is killing be cause he's glad and willing to leave dead men behind, he may be some one's hero; with me lie's down to zero I do not like his kind. Xot gayly, but with sorrow some rusty nails I bor row and load my ancient gun, not smiliuo-lv. but weeping, I am to ambush creeping to not the passing Ilun. (Copyright 1917 by George Matthew Adams.)
